Word: mellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armaments race and among military men the poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?" The dynamics of dictatorship are such that few who have studied Fascism and its leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those who watched the closing events...
...brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
...years, kindly, mellow-voiced Dr. Alexander Nicoll of New York's Fordham Hospital waited to try out an operation which he had carefully studied step by step from texts and charts. His opportunity came last April when attendants wheeled in Patrolman William Manning, who had been stabbed through the heart, was on the verge of death...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...
...serve as a setting for a group of statues on the bank. Mr. Samuel threw fits. His wife, he cried, had left her money for statues, not for balustrades. At this the association threw up its hands and settled down again to wait for Joseph Bunford Samuel to mellow with...